Nurses

Jacqui Barker (f)

RN

Ruth Crawford

BA (Hons) RN

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice and blood pressure checks The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes and carry out cervical smears.

Healthcare Assistants

Elaine, Elsa, Linda & Dianne have undertaken specific training to allow them to carry out height, weight, blood pressure and urine checks and to take blood for laboratory testing. This allows the doctors and nurses to concentrate on more complicated cases.

Practice Management

Karen McElwee Practice Manager

Elsa Macneil Office Manager

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Administration

Allison Sheridan Secretary

Marion Jennings Health Board Clerk

Reception

Linda Wilson Senior Receptionist

Anne McDougall Prescription Clerk

Michelle Henry Sub Area Receptionist

Dianne O'Donnell Sub Area Receptionist

Marie McLean

Jaqui Kelly

Margaret Walsh

Rose Beattie

Margaret Fitzsimmons

Karen Conlin

Maureen McGinley

Gillian Belshaw

Rachelle Paton

Josephine Cassidy

Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.

Community Nurses

Stephanie Pollard RGN, SPQ, PGD, NMP

June Alcorn BSc

Alicia Moore RGN, BSc

Caroline Langford RGN

Carol McKnight HCSW

The Distric Nurse is a specialist in homecare nursing who works with your Doctor and other services in order to provide the most effective high standard of care for patients, carers and families in their home.

Am I housebound?

Please remember that the District Nursing services is first and foremost a service for people who are housebound.

A person is housebound if they are unable to leave their home because of a physical and/or pysochological illness.

There are some circumstances where it may be more appropriate for you to receive care in your own home. The District Nurse willbe able to discuss this with you.